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[mvr]

I need to give a root rights to the few administrators, so they don't have to use the root user for the login. How can I accomplish this on the HP-UX 11 server ?

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

The safest way would be to acquire and install a copy of sudo. You don't want a bunch of people running around with root privileges.

Pete

[Clemens van Everdingen]

Hi,

I would suggest you start using sudo !

See:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.6.6/

This will be the safest way to use root with more than one person without knowing the root password at all.

C.

[Ken Hubnik_2]

sudo is the best way and it logs so you have an audit trail for security.

[Victor_5]

I heard many people mentioning sudo, however, it is not supported by hp, you may consider to use SCM although it is a little bit complex, see more at

http://www.docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8339-90030/B8339-90030_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8339-90030/00/00/50-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8339-90030/00/00/50-toc.html&searchterms=scm&queryid=20021119-082217

[Pete Randall]

Depending on what they need to do, you could also look at restricted SAM (sam -r).

Pete

[Victor_5]

You are right, Pete. sam -r is another way.